[Just mythoughts]

Interesting hypotheses. I’ll have to ask God about them after I die. The problem with a lot of this “educated speculation” on what is meant by the words used in the Genisis account of creation is that the information is incomplete. Or, a better explanation would be that it is incomplete within the context of what we humans actually know. I think that much of the bible, when dealing with things spiritual or without eyewitness account, is akin to explaining the color “red” to a person that only sees grayscale. It is amazing it is able to communicate anything at all. I am also reminded of the line in a song by the group Genesis: “They’re trying to find themselves an audience. Their deductions need applause.”

There is nothing I wrote you that had anything to do with anticipation of an audience let alone an applause... Over and OUT!!!

[RobRoy]

>>There is nothing I wrote you that had anything to do with anticipation of an audience let alone an applause... Over and OUT!!!<<

It was NOT meant as a slam on you. Sorry. :)

The thing about all these speculations regarding the world of Genesis, which you aptly point out was written a LONG time after the fact by someone that was not there when it happened, are that they are just that - speculations. Sure, one can infer all sorts of things from what Peter, et-al say about the beginning, but even then we have a tendency to “read between the lines” things that are not really there.

My basic position on this is that we can no more know much about the genesis events than what the bible says IN Genesis than we can know the day or the hour of Jesus’ return. Whenever people get pretty “strong” in their opinion on what it says that is not in the plain text, alarms start going off in my head.

The quote of the line from the Genesis song was just my way of saying that we all tend to, when we think we may have found something there that nobody else noticed, we have a natural tendency to try to bring others along. And there is a bit of the natural man that really WANTS to be right, for it shows we deserve the applause.

I still defer to my comment about the bible attempting to explain red to a person that only sees grayscale. And it actually does a pretty good job. But the bottom line is that in this life we see as through a mirror, darkly.